Two world-class auctioneers, David Gooding and Charlie Ross, brought the guests to their feet as they auctioned the first Ferrari 458 Speciale A sold in the United States. The car sold for $900,000 with net proceeds benefitting Daybreak. Professor Michael Caplan, board member of Daybreak, accepted the gift of the auction proceeds by Piero Ferrari, son of Enzo Ferrari, founder of the company.

On the following day, Michael Caplan gave a touching speech on Rodeo Drive before the largest Ferrari parade ever in the United States (over 1,000 cars) about the great impact that Daybreak is having on the lives of many patients; a few American kids successfully treated in Italy with gene therapy were smiling around him and taking pictures with the cars and the celebrities around there.

Daybreak Children's Rare Disease Fund is the operational name of Friends of Telethon Foundation Italy.

Daybreak Children's Rare Disease Fund is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization whose mission is to support the best research aimed at the cure of rare genetic diseases. Daybreak choose as primary beneficiaries of its efforts Fondazione Telethon Italia and its two world-class research centers, TIGEM and TIGET.

Daybreak Children's Rare Disease Fund is committed to raise awareness on rare genetic diseases and to promote timely development and availability of safe and effective diagnostics and treatments for affected persons.